Robinho, 36, was sentenced to nine years in jail in Italy in 2017 for rape
He was accused of attacking a 23-year-old Albanian woman in a nightclub
Footballer appealed, saying he had consensual oral sex with the woman
But Italian appeal court upheld the original sentence on Thursday
Comes after wiretapped phonecalls revealed Robinho laughing off the charges with his friends, saying: 'I don't care... the woman was drunk'